Wealth and the Wealthy : : Exploring and Tackling Inequalities between Rich and Poor / / Karen Rowlingson, Stephen D. McKay.
Wealth and the wealthy have received relatively little attention from social scientists despite a growing wealth gap. Aimed at a broad social science and public readership, this book draws on new data on wealth to answer the following key questions: What is wealth? Who has got it? Where might we dra...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (269 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- List of tables and figures
- Acknowledgements
- About the authors
- Introduction
- Why wealth matters
- Why the wealthy matter
- What is wealth and who are the wealthy?
- The distribution of wealth
- The rich, the richer and the richest
- Towards a comprehensive policy on assets
- Social policy and the wealthy
- Conclusions
- References
- Index